ts of the highest rank, the generals and officers of thearmy and the great civil functionaries, while they made no eftortto rival the splendour of the royal creations, consecrated steles,images of the deity, and chapels, at their own expense. It wasupon their tombs, however, that most of their care… … Fig. 26.—Netting birds. From a tomb. (Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin.) know of the style and methods of that art in those early times weowe to the burial-places which the members of the governingclasses were in the habit of preparing during their lifetime inthe necropolis of Memphis. We may say the same…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu22egyp-72-174.webp)
